Coursera adds 17 online partners
The online learning service Coursera, which announced a partnership with the University July 17, added 17 universities to its list of participating institutions Wednesday.
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The online learning service Coursera, which announced a partnership with the University July 17, added 17 universities to its list of participating institutions Wednesday.
In a Board of Visitors committee meeting Wednesday afternoon, University Architect David Neuman presented strategies to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent from the University’s 2009 levels.
GOP supporters expecting to listen to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speak at a political rally at Richmond International Airport Friday were likely disappointed when only his second-in-command, vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan, addressed them. Romney planned to stop in Richmond, but made a last minute detour to survey the aftermath of category 1 storm Hurricane Isaac in Louisiana, just hours after the conclusion of the Republican National Convention.
After University President Teresa A. Sullivan’s ouster this summer, the Honor Committee has decided to try to reinvigorate what its members said at a Committee meeting Sunday night is a compromised “community of trust.”
University faculty are eligible to receive a three percent bonus from the state of Virginia with their November paychecks this year, University Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Susan Carkeek announced Tuesday. Faculty salaries have been frozen since December 2007.
Students returning to school this week were greeted by a slew of construction-related changes to the University’s Grounds, the most significant being the construction of a temporary dining facility in front of Peabody Hall called N2.
President Barack Obama held a conference call yesterday afternoon with college students from around the nation to speak about the costs of higher education. From aboard Air Force One, he explained the importance of maintaining current interest rates on student loans in a changing economy.
The Honor Committee yesterday evening considered making an honor system tutorial, which was previously optional for first-year students, mandatory for all students at the beginning of the fall semester. The Committee hopes to operate the education module through NetBadge.
The family of former University student Yeardley Love plans to file a wrongful death suit in Charlottesville Circuit Court, the attorney of Yeardley Love's mother Sharon Love indicated Thursday. A jury in February convicted former University student George Huguely of the second-degree murder of Love, his ex-girlfriend.
Ayn Rand Institute fellow Don Watkins spoke to the University community yesterday evening about his qualms with the nation's entitlement programs, which include Social Security and Medicare.
Virginia is among the nation's least-prepared states for water-related climate change threats, according to a report released Thursday by the National Resource Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group. The report, "Ready or Not," analyzed all 50 states.
Irish Ambassador Michael Collins spoke to University community members in the Rotunda Dome Room yesterday afternoon about Ireland's weakened economy, which state leaders hope will improve through reduced deficit spending.
The University's Hoos for Obama movement participated Tuesday in a conference call with First Lady Michelle Obama after the Republican Party of Virginia this week announced the dates for its three U.S. Senate Primary debates.
The Virginia General Assembly failed to agree on a budget before its March 10 deadline this weekend, pushing the legislature into a Special Session which will ultimately pose extra costs to taxpayers.
The Charlottesville Commonwealth's Attorney Office is currently investigating the third-party group Organizing for America after it allegedly failed to submit voter registration forms on time, preventing 147 Virginians from taking part in the March 6 state primary.
\nThird-year College student Brianne Pitts, a Living Wage Campaign supporter who had fasted for the past six days, dropped out of the campaign's hunger strike after feeling faint and breaking out in a sweat in her economics class yesterday. The number of students participating in the hunger strike now stands at 17.
Members of the Living Wage Campaign marched to Teresa Sullivan's office in Madison Hall yesterday afternoon to deliver a page from "The Social Organization of Work," a book she co-authored with Prof. Randy Hodson, which campaigners said states her support for a living wage.
Photographs displayed yesterday evening by photographer and University alumnus Andre Lambertson at the Newcomb South Meeting Room presented the untold stories behind the 2010 Haitian earthquake.
Talking about Valentine's Day with any group of girls will probably elicit strong feelings, ranging from giddy excitement to dejected loneliness or, in extreme cases, utter despair.
The Virginia House and Senate Democratic caucuses came together yesterday morning to discuss what the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus described in a press release as "Republican overreach."